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was being more and more recognised in our schools of art. 

 In their own school at Belfast they had special classes for 

 architecture, and in order to get this unity in art work 

 architectural students were encouraged to study other branches 

 of work, and students in other classes were encouraged to 

 study architecture, so as to see its bearing on their own special 

 craft. No doubt we lived in a mechanical and material age, 

 tending to a loss of refinement, and the stamping out of 

 humanity and life in art. What we wanted nowadays to bring 

 back the refinement mentioned by Mr. Coffey, was more 

 recognition of the human element in art work, as against the 

 merely mechanical ; more hand work as against machine wcrk; 

 more work in situ as opposed to that worked out entirely 

 in the studio or office, and more craftsmen who were also 

 designers, and not mechanical copyists of designs by other 

 men, with which they had no sympathy. He had pleasure in 

 supporting the vote of thanks. 



The motion was heartily passed, and the lecturer, in replying, 

 said he had only been able to touch the fringe of the subject, 

 and he referred those who would like to study the subject to 

 the Brooklyn Institute of Fine Arts' memoirs on the subject, 

 which they would probably find in the library. 



